Genesis 43:16 · JPS 1917
And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house: 'Bring the men into the house, and kill the beasts, and prepare the meat; for the men shall dine with me at noon.'
Who acts: Joseph, men · What happens: see, say, bring, kill, prepare, dine · To what, where: Benjamin, men, house, beasts, meat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 43:16 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joseph, men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Bring | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 saw | mark |
| 3 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | advcl |
| 5 | Benjamin | Benjamin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 steward | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 steward | det |
| 13 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 house | nmod:poss |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 steward | nmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 Bring | punct |
| 19 | Bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 men | det |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Bring | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Bring | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 kill | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 kill | cc |
| 27 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 Bring | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 beasts | det |
| 29 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 kill | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 prepare | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 prepare | cc |
| 32 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 Bring | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 meat | det |
| 34 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 prepare | obj |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 dine | punct |
| 36 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 40 dine | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 men | det |
| 38 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 dine | nsubj |
| 39 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 dine | aux |
| 40 | dine | dine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 Bring | conj |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 me | case |
| 42 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 dine | obl |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 noon | case |
| 44 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 dine | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 Bring | punct |
| 46 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Joseph | Benjamin | with present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer benjamin=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Joseph | to the steward of Joseph's house | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to steward=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | the men | the house | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme into house=Destination | ||||
| 4 | kill | infinitive | the beasts | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme | |||||
| 5 | prepare | infinitive | the meat | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient | |||||
| 6 | dine | shall | the men | noon | with me | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The Hebrew of this verse
וַיַּ֨רְא יוֹסֵ֣ף אִתָּם֮ אֶת־בִּנְיָמִין֒ וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ לַֽאֲשֶׁ֣ר עַל־בֵּית֔וֹ הָבֵ֥א אֶת־הָאֲנָשִׁ֖ים הַבָּ֑יְתָה וּטְבֹ֤חַ טֶ֙בַח֙ וְהָכֵ֔ן כִּ֥י אִתִּ֛י יֹאכְל֥וּ הָאֲנָשִׁ֖ים בַּֽצָּהֳרָֽיִם׃
Genesis 43:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1416 of Mova's parse database.
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